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Latvia
UNESCO
world heritage sites
Ergli municipality
Sestu-Kalns Struve Geodetic Arc
in
Sausneja
on
P79
These are points of a survey, carried out between 1816 and 1855 by several scientists (surveyors) under leadership of the astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve, which represented the first accurate measuring of a long segment of a meridian.
Jekabpils municipality
Jacobstadt Struve Geodetic Arc
in
Jekabpils
at
Rudolfa Blaumana Iela
See above.
Kuldiga municicipality
Old Town
of
Kuldiga
@
Located in the western part of Latvia, the town of Kuldīga is an exceptionally well-preserved example of a traditional urban settlement, which developed from a small medieval hamlet into an important administrative centre of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia between the 16th and 18th centuries.
Riga municicipality
Historic Centre
of
Riga
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It is generally recognized that Riga has the finest collection of art nouveau buildings in Europe.